Me pega muito a gente ter essas fotos do Marx e ainda ter gente que insiste que ele era um homem branco europeu TM

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy. Última foto de Karl Marx com seus casinhas em 1882.

"To this type of organization we oppose the principle that the working class can effectively come into its own and prevail only by taking its destiny into its own hands. The workers are not to adopt the slogans of any group whatsoever. not even our own groups; they are to think, decide and act...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

One more repost for Spinoza's birthday. www.unemployednegativity.com/2023/01/the-...

Can there be a postneoliberal moment ? Certainly nation-state level subsidies for local corporate monopolies have a logic of nation-client relationships that gets twisted back around to justify Trump’s tariff jockeying! Neoliberalism is in its peak hyper-incoherent! Neoliberal protectionism reigns!

library of alexandria 💀

Finished Party and Working Class. Next up,

The culture war is just two styles of moralism in tension—moral individualism and moral patriarchy. If we dispensed with morality in general and left ourselves only with ethics and principles, a demand from the world that we should hold higher standards would be evident. Morality is individuated!

Marx became even more of a role model for me when I realized that I might have to be a rogue academic with no professor job for a number of years! Marx can be held up as an independent scholar whose work literally reorganized several academic disciplines! Marx is a model hybrid thinker—organic rigor

Gen Alpha becoming the new consumer that Capital caters to … developments in demographic advertising and marketing pass for news in a world of pseudo political events when even policy paralysis is reported on as an event instead of a decided non-event that is a negation of the concept of happening

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The patriarchal domination that can sometimes show up with certain trans women — whether in trans-inclusive lesbian relationships or in women’s artistic collectives — does not make it some kind of “gender colonialism” that would invalidate trans identity the way TERFs like to claim.

The latest round of tech working mobilization inspired by Cory's "enshitification" framing is amazing to see, tho I can't help bracing myself for the inevitable wasted energy as people rush forward without understanding counterantidisintermediation public.monster/~dmyt...

Why did the Bolsheviks dissolve the councils? Why do anarchists fail to plan for the end of currency? Why do so many Marxist movements get taken over by nationalists despite Marx emphasizing internationalism? Why do so many anarchists end up joining parliaments? Why is incoherence so much the norm?

Hot take: we don’t need political parties that consume spontaneous movements and we don’t need spontaneous movements that totally reject all historical and tactical thought! There is no single form of non-state organization that is the key we need it all! Mutual aid, theory, workplaces, tenants

We need spontaneous movements yes but we also need strategy and an orientation for how we can connect various spontaneous points of struggle together and weave together our rage into a regional and international resistance that climaxes simultaneously not just when politicians say jump but via unity

Making literature of any kind illegal is one step towards being able to manufacture evidence that your perceived enemies are much more vast and dangerous than they are . This is a floating signifier of sorts that will be used to target anyone the fascists see as a threat to their power.

Disability advocates and their supporters have called on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill banning the use of ‘aversive therapy’, as the state’s Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) continues to administer electric shocks to disabled children.

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The English language forces a certain separation from collective being in the syntax and grammar developments of the subject and object! The western heritage of a language of I and you is not present in indigenous languages and thought systems ! Something about Western European culture worships self

No such thing as a self if you read Spinoza!! Just a random set of cultural associations and natural predilections

“There's no gifts stacking up for the righteous And the wicked have enough coal Hell it's making them rich; where the fuck have you been?” - Pat The Bunny, I Don’t Know

Rights are legal fictions! Property is violent inheritance that you receive as an ill-gotten gain! Food cannot be promised by a regime based on naturalist individualized freedom to die of neglect or by an uncaring set of intentionally unaware islands! History is a great weight against our victories

Spend my untrained hours, guilt-stricken afternoons, avoiding, pleading these forms unfilled My body will not sign its name to another lie about my excitement My words will not fake-smile for toil-opportunities I am not happy to meet you! I don’t want to network or drink Let us not shake hands

I will never accept the improvement of my material conditions at the cost of the suffering of other people. That's what every system of oppression has taught us to accept and what I reject with my whole being.

Queer spaces oppose the sacralization of the couple form but that negative foundation mean they lack coherent structures and histories! Queer social movements I have been part of have had to explicitly codify Structures in order for our spaces to be safe! This is the struggle against neglect!

Queer spaces in my experience exist in a location of neglect, as heteronormative institutions have the most resources and the most clear histories and expectations!! Queer counterpublics are defined in negation of the familial institution!

The lines are pushed down into thinly sliced flora the rules by which We part the ground a fence is lain earth is cut here is cut from there I from thee we cut the atom And explode with each exchange with each passing palm clouds hover As electric signals trace along the ground quantities burned

Seeking justifications endless pursuit of why my sweat is worth— crumpled fibrous engraved napkins stamped metal circle The writ is faded blood is the ink mined by slave owners tells me what’s this and that thither and hither Rule finally this hour’s quantity name in crinkled eyes the number

Finished We and German Syndicalism. Next up,

Sarah McBride when Nazis and moderate Dems mistreat her:

What Americans call socialism most of the rest of the World calls Social Democracy 🤔

I do believe civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs was right by saying the change must start from the bottom. The collective of individuals can reflect the future that we desire which can create the systems needed. Those at the top are only going to change as far as they are still benefitting.

Both Trump and Mamdani are incoherent capitalist liberals, the latter just being a more welfare capitalist flavor of liberal than the former but neither being half the things they claim to be, both being hybrid monsters that crawl out when capitalism has its crisis as the Gramsci saying dictates

Bluesky, Substack and Signal are a much more moderate social media diet than Facebook and Instagram ever were!! Call me a social media tee totaler! The meta apps are like booze, popular but just not my flavor of daily delusion!! Give me a smaller fishbowl with less normies + blogs+leftist community

Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.

Death from new strain of bird flu. #Medsky www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/h...

This Day in Labor History: November 21, 1896. Dock workers in Hamburg, Germany went on strike. One of the major working class struggles in German history, the conservative leadership of that nation went ballistic over the sheer existence of these workers striking.

yes. they want to return to a time when you had to wear 3 articles of “appropriately gendered” clothing or be subject to arrest

Most humanities scholars are not the resistance !!! Some are but the ones that actually are tend to not be professors… such as Marx

Yeah, that and "Technology will save us".

Got to the second interview with a local teaching fellowship. Hung out with my aging father! Will not be going anywhere for colonizer day next week! Feeling glum about the whole holidays thing frankly! Winter feasts are heteronormative! Will be going to a Chinese buffet next week so that is nice

Forms of Unfree Labor: Primitive Accumulation, History or Prehistory of Capitalism?

If you vote for a war criminal because your rights will be protected here at home, you're endorsing the continuation of bipartisan foreign policy that has caused mass suffering all over the world.